Main headlines from Finland

Thursday, 19 December 2013
Finland's finance ministry expects the country’s recession in 2013 will
be deeper than previously feared. The country's GDP is now projected to
decline by 1.2 percent this year, against the previous forecast of
minus 0.5 percent.

Wednesday, 04 September 2013
The sale of Nokia to Microsoft has aroused strong feeling in Finland.
Given how powerful the company was part of the Finnish economy, culture
and country pride, many Finns feel defeated after the sale.

Thursday, 15 August 2013
As the capitalists are gradually winning the argument of a more market
economic model, the highly cherish welfare system that used to assist
those left behind in the process of economic development is gradually
shrinking in the Nordic countries and the effect is a remnants of
families left with empty pockets.

Tuesday, 06 August 2013
The sports, cricket which is a game played by mostly Anglo-Saxon
related countries is gradually gaining ground in Finland and a Finnish
Cricket Association has been created to dive its international
attainment.

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Russian President. Vladimir Putin’s plane landed in Turku, Finland on
Tuesday two hours later than originally scheduled as he came for a
working visit to Finland. That visit though became overshadowed by news
about Snowden, the American wanted for allegedly leaking state secrete
to the Russia and China.

Sunday, 02 June 2013
In Finland, Romanian criminal gangs have been burgling dozens of
self-service fuel pumps in southern Finland, half of them in the
Kanta-Häme region and they were caught in the act. Shame to Romanians
who continue to invite western resentment of them.

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
The leader of the Finnish Far right party, Timo Soini of the True
Finns, which is a leading opposition party in the Finnish parliament,
said that he participated in demonstrations against same-sex marriage
in the French capital last weekend.

Monday, 27 May 2013
Finland is also one of the most socially and culturally polarising
states in the Nordic region and as Swedish capital went through intense
rioting around it suburbs over the whole of last week, Finland fear
that such situation can come to its shores.

Thursday, 23 May 2013
Income differences in Finland are below the average in Europe,
according to Statistics Finland. The gap between richest and poorest is
largest in Latvia and Bulgaria and smallest in Norway and Iceland.

Thursday, 23 May 2013
Finland is not treating asylum seekers in a way expected of a country
of its statue. This is the view of the human rights organisation,
Amnesty International in its annual report on Finland.

Monday, 29 April 2013
Afghan
President Hamid Karzai, who on Monday arrived in Finland for an
official visit, admits that his government has received money from the
CIA. Although the main core of his visit was to cement economic
co-operation with Finland, Mr Karzai was quizzed about the allegation
which was determined to have the handiwork of corruption.

Thursday, 28 March 2013A councillor of
the Finnish far right party, True Finns in Vaasa, Risto Helin,
has received a present which is a clock with a photo of Hitler and the
Nazi swastika as a gift from a patriotic club in Vaasa, Finland.